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Raila among thousands of mourners at Tsvangirai burial (Photos)

The casket of late opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is carried into Mabelreign Methodist Church in Harare for a memorial service on February 18, 2018. [AFP]

 National Super Alliance leader Raila Odinga was among the thousands that gathered in Zimbabwe on Tuesday to bury opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, an icon in country’s opposition politics and who lived to see the fall of his political nemesis Robert Mugabe.

Raila Odinga speaks to acting president of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, Nelson Chamisa during the burial of Morgan Tsvangirai. [AFP]

Tsvangirai died last Wednesday aged 65 at a South Africa hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer.

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